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Margaret's sister Jane Fazakerley was with them. | Family (F431)
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Marriage: 14 Oct 1885 St Clement, Salford, Lancashire, England
William Thompson - 23 Stone Mason Bachelor of 78 Lynton Street
Elizabeth Potter - 22 Artificial Flower Maker Spinster of 78 Lynton Street
Groom's Father: George Thompson, (deceased), Master Mason
Bride's Father: Charles Potter, (deceased), Iron Moulder
Witness: William Thomas Coates; Annie Coates
Married by Banns by: Charles V. Merriman
Register: Marriages 1879 - 1886, Page 239, Entry 477
Source: LDS Film 1786423 | Family (F30)
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Marriage: 24 Oct 1885 St Clement, Salford, Lancashire, England
Thomas Lamb - 28 Bookmaker Bachelor of 103 Garfield Street
Elizabeth Annie Thompson - (X), 25 Tailoress Spinster of 103 Garfield Street
Groom's Father: Joseph Lamb, (deceased), Paper Hanger
Bride's Father: George Thompson, (deceased), Stone Mason
Witness: Nathan Aldred Lancashire; Charlotte Henrietta Kyle Beecroft
Married by Banns by: Charles V. Merriman
Register: Marriages 1879 - 1886, Page 240, Entry 479
Source: LDS Film 1786423 | Family (F365)
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Married at Register Office. Witnesses Thomas and Helen Reilly. | Family (F292)
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Married at St George, Hanover Square. Elizabeth Hawgood was one of the witnesses (the Hawgoods seem to have been family friends). | Family (F94)
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Mary and the children are not with him | Calvert, Richard Bell (I982)
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Mary E Calvert is with them | Family (F481)
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Matilda is recorded in Newport with her father John Winter, and has taken WIlliam. Matilda and Frederick with her. Her husband John is recorded iin Bristol with children Jane Albert and Louisa. | Winter, Matilda (I656)
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Merged 08/11/2015 08:43 | Source (S236)
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Merged 12/12/2006 11:11 | Source (S28)
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Merged 19/11/2007 11:02 | Source (S77)
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Metcalf (civil engineer)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Metcalf , also known as Blind Jack of Knaresborough
John Metcalf, or as he was more popularly known, Blind Jack Metcalf (August 15, 1717 – April 26, 1810) was the first of the professional road builders to emerge during the Industrial Revolution. Although made blind from smallpox at the age of six, John had an eventful life, which was well documented by his own account just before his death. In the period 1765 to 1792 he built about 300 km (180 miles) of turnpike road, mainly in Lancashire, Derbyshire, Cheshire and Yorkshire.
Early life
John was born in Knaresborough, England about 15 miles north of Leeds, Yorkshire on August 15, 1717 into a poor family, the son of a horse breeder. At the age of six, he lost his sight to a smallpox infection. The child was given fiddle lessons as a way of making provision for him to earn a living later in life. He became an accomplished fiddler and made this his livelihood in the early adult years. He had an affinity for horses and added to his living with some horse trading. Though blind, he took up swimming and diving, fighting cocks, playing cards, riding, and even hunting. He knew his local area so well he got paid to work as a guide to visitors.
In 1739 Jack befriended Dorothy Benson the landlord's daughter of the Granby inn in Harrogate. When, at the age of 21 he made another woman pregnant, Dorothy begged him not to marry the woman and Jack fled. He then spent some time living along the North Sea coast between Newcastle and London, also lodging with his aunt at Whitby. He continued to work as a fiddler. When he heard Dorothy was to be married to a shoemaker, Jack returned and eloped with her. They married and went on to have four children. Dorothy died in 1778.
His fiddle playing gave him social connections and a patron, Colonel Liddell. In one much repeated story the colonel decided to take his young protégé to London, 190 miles away to the south. John found the colonel’s leisurely progress too slow and went ahead on foot. He reached London first and then returned to Yorkshire before the colonel. He managed this though on foot and blind and the story demonstrates Jacks determination and resourcefulness.
During the Second Jacobite rebellion of 1745 Jack’s connections got him the job of assistant to the recruiting sergeant who was raising a company for the King in the Knaresborough area. Jack went with the army to Scotland. He did not experience action but was employed moving guns over boggy ground. He was later captured but released.
After the war he used his Scottish experience to begin importing Aberdeen stockings to England.
[edit] Carrier
Before his army service Jack had tried his hand as a carrier using a four wheeled chaise and a one-horse chair on local trips. When competition cut into this business he switched to carrying fish from the coast to Leeds and Manchester. After 1745 he bought a stone wagon and worked it between York and Knaresborough. By 1754 his business had grown to a stagecoach line. He drove a coach himself, making two trips a week during the summer and one a week in the winter months.
Road builder
In 1765 Parliament passed an act authorising turnpike building in the Knaresborough area. There were few people around with road building experience and John seized the opportunity, building on his practical experience as a carrier. He won a contract to build a three-mile section between Minskip and Feamsby of a new road from Harrogate to Boroughbridge. He explored this section of countryside alone and worked out the most practical path. He went on to build roads all over Yorkshire and Lancashire.
Metcalf believed that a good road should have good foundations, be well drained and have a smooth convex (rounded) surface to allow rainwater to drain quickly into ditches at the side of the road. He understood the importance of good drainage, knowing it was rain which caused most of the problems on the roads.
He worked out a way to build a road across a bog using a series of rafts made from ling (a variety of rush or marsh grass) and furze (heather) tied in bundles as foundations. This established his reputation as a road builder as other engineers had believed it could not be done.
He acquired an unequalled mastery of his trade with his own accurate method of calculating costs and materials, which he could never successfully explain to others.
Later life
Competition from canals eventually cut into his profits and he retired in 1792 to live with a daughter and her husband at Spofforth Yorkshire. Throughout his career he built 180 miles of road. At 77 he walked to York where he related a detailed account of his life to a publisher (see Ref below). Blind Jack of Knaresborough died in his 93rd year on April 26, 1810, in his home in Spofforth. He is buried in Spofforth Churchyard.
References
- -, 1795, The Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough, Printed and sold by E. and R. Peck, York, 153 Pages | Google books: [1], [2]
- -, 1804, The Life of John Metcalf, Third edition, Leeds
Smiles, 1861, John Metcalf, Road Maker, chapter in Lives of the Engineers Vol 1 Part III Ch V
Porrit, A. 6th Feb 1962, John Metcalf Blind Road Maker, Halifax Antiquarian Society Pamphlet. | Metcalf, John "Blind Jack" (I935)
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Mother Martha A Jones is with her | Jones, Lucy Eveline (I68)
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Mother Sarah and sister Elizabeth are with him | Boam, George Henry (I1076)
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Name recorded as Binyoun Drage | Drage, Bynion (I747)
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Newman & Mortimer
Newman, Mortimer and Little Fanny | Cooper, George John (I1391)
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No address - "no name given to this part of the village" | Family (F287)
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North House, North Place, West Square | Cooper, Robert Jones (I1400)
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North Lotts is also known as Newfoundland. The land was reclaimed in the 18th century. | Devine, Matthew (I719)
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NSW no 253 | Family (F213)
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NSW No 374 | Family (F213)
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On the Orsova. UK address given as 50 Dale Street | Parkes, Elizabeth Mary (I110)
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On the SS Merion | Austin, John Harold (I1304)
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One child boarding - a girl - L Chapman aged 10 born Bedford. | Hollis, Sarah Ann (I151)
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Only the father's name is shown in the baptismal register | Gleaves, Walter (I1378)
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Ordnance Place was the home of William Taylor who registered the birth on 10 January 1863 | Cooper, Fanny (I1397)
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Parents shown as Edmund Alexander Oliver and Elise Dagonaut. | Oliver, Edmund Walther (I36)
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Per 1851 Census | Hollis, William (I150)
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Per 1911 census his occupation was "seafaring and sweeming" | Jones, Newton (I134)
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Per baptism record for Rebecca | Wingod, Joseph (I479)
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Per Baptism record for Rebecca | Wingod, Joseph (I479)
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Per FindMyPast.com | Source (S58)
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Per James Austin's US immigration record | Austin, James (I1265)
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Per the 1851 census and is listed similarly in the 1853 Gores Directory | Gleaves, John Scarett (I262)
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Per Wayne Roddam's upload to Roots Web " He arrived in NSW about 1877, as time in state is recorded as
27years on his death certificate. Arthur was divorced from
his first wife ( Laura Holliday) after he had deserted her. He
then had a relationship with a lady called Mary Brady, and
they had a son called Walter who was seven at the time of
hisfather's death. There is no record of their marriage.
Arthur Oliver died of Phthisi pulmonalis after an illness
of three and a half years. He was buried in Rookwood Cemetery
bythe undertakers Cofill & Co. The minister presiding at
thefuneral was the Roman Catholic priest T.Kenny." | Oliver, Arthur Walter (I25)
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Peter is latinised as Patricium in the register, hence Patrick in the marriages index. | Family (F366)
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Peter was a boarder with his sister-in-law Lucy Jones ( wife of Robert Jones who was at sea with the Royal Navy). He may have been working with Lucy's brother John Parkes who was also a watchmaker and the founder of John Parkes & Sons, marine instrument makers, and who lived at the same address in Duke Street. | Jones, Peter (I299)
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Pewterer free by patrimony (family links) 16 Jun 1748; had leave to open shop and strike his mark 22 Jun 1749; admitted as liveryman 16 Dec 1756; elected Steward 1766; reported as bankrupt in the London Gazette 7 Nov 1767.
In 1776 he had a shop in Jewin Street but Insurance Policy Registers note him as a pewterer in Horn Alley, Aldersgate Street c1775-84 and he is also mentioned at this address in minutes of a Worshipful Company committee meeting in 1778.
He had 4 apprentices: Dionysius Waldby, free 1759; John Gurnell, free 1768; William Ferrier, free 1776; Charles William Loader, free 1784.
He died in 1784 and his widow, Jane continued the business with the approval of the Worshipful Company. | Wingod, John (I460)
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Pewterer free by patrimony on 21 Mar 1771. Recorded in Insurance Policy Registers at Bells Gardens, Peckham, Surrey c1775-87. | Wingod, Cassia (I467)
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Presumably living with his mother and stepfather at the Crown Inn. | Oliver, William (I180)
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Presumably the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway | Bradbury, Edwin (I547)
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Previously in Canada | Hill, Dennis Marshall (I1230)
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Private Grave
Reopen 18170
Owner Oliver
Sq 75 | Oliver, Alfred John (I21)
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Probably born at Schlusselberg | Austin, Vera (I166)
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Probate Granted in Bangor, Exors William Williams and William Thornton Jones. Est ¹2889 7/1 (Per Navy Service Records) | Thomas, John Lloyd (I233)
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Probate was granted to Ann Walker of 2 Windsor Place Bedford (widow of William Walker) | Folder, Mary (I1351)
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Recoded as James Hunt. This is probbaly an error on the part of the enumerator. | Family (F410)
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Record originated in... | Source (S29)
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Record originated in... | Source (S30)
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